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the city's first teacher strike in 25 years. that brought into sharp relief the tension between teacher unions and the obama administration reform proposals as well. joining me is the secretary of education arne duncan. this is a political issue in this campaign. i know you try to stay out of politics but the romney team and mitt romney himself, accusing the president of siding with teachers. that might come as a surprise to you since you've been under fire from the teachers unions along the way as well. >> i think we should all be on the side of teachers. i think teachers are doing important work every day without enough resources, often without enough support. this is about how we get better together. stop playing politics, how we support teachers and principals to get better, parents step up and help them, challenge young people to get a good education all of vus a great deal of self-interest seeing america have a world-class public education system. >> what is your take away from the strike in chicago? rahm' moon all in took
the city's first teacher strike in 25 years. that brought into sharp relief the tension between teacher unions and the obama administration reform proposals as well. joining me is the secretary of education arne duncan. this is a political issue in this campaign. i know you try to stay out of politics but the romney team and mitt romney himself, accusing the president of siding with teachers. that might come as a surprise to you since you've been under fire from the teachers unions along the...
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nearly 20,000 teachers and support staff are striking today, the city's first teacher strike in 25 years. moments ago mayor rahm emanuel urged both sides to, quote, stay at the table and finish it for our children. kevin tibls joins us from the picket lines in chicago. hey, kevin. a lot of emotion there on all sides. are there any real talks going on to try to bring this to a quick close? >> well, first off, andrea, it is quite a boisterous crowd outside the elementary school here in chicago. they've been at this since 6:30 this morning and that's been the case at all of the schools throughout the city here, as you mentioned more than 400,000 kids are scrambling other places to go. this is one of the schools that remained open for half a day to feed the children breakfast and lunch and this is just -- this school is just about to let out. in terms of the talks, the talks are continuing today as you know. they went right up to the deadline last night and it was very late in the evening when the union finally pulled the plug and said that teachers would be out on the bricks this morning an
nearly 20,000 teachers and support staff are striking today, the city's first teacher strike in 25 years. moments ago mayor rahm emanuel urged both sides to, quote, stay at the table and finish it for our children. kevin tibls joins us from the picket lines in chicago. hey, kevin. a lot of emotion there on all sides. are there any real talks going on to try to bring this to a quick close? >> well, first off, andrea, it is quite a boisterous crowd outside the elementary school here in...
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salt lake city and dallas yesterday, raising money. i always caveat by saying in an election the first election we've had since watergate where both candidates are not being publicly financed you need a lot of money to run for president. that said, i don't think what mitt romney needs right now is to be doing more fund-raisers. i think he needs to go out there and chuck and i have talked about this on and off camera, go out and start just campaign, campaign, campaign, campaign. i talked to republican consultants who said what he needs to do, hit back. some of that redistribution video you mentioned some of that is him trying to hit back. you need to be present, to be saying things, giving people positive headlines to write about. you can't just sit back and go to fund-raisers because while the money is important it's not going to help you solve the messaging problem. it's not a fund-raising problem for mitt romney, it's a messaging problem. going to fund-raisers isn't going to solve that let's explain this redistribution issue. we have
salt lake city and dallas yesterday, raising money. i always caveat by saying in an election the first election we've had since watergate where both candidates are not being publicly financed you need a lot of money to run for president. that said, i don't think what mitt romney needs right now is to be doing more fund-raisers. i think he needs to go out there and chuck and i have talked about this on and off camera, go out and start just campaign, campaign, campaign, campaign. i talked to...
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the law after new york city detective james adro ga who died after working at ground zero was signed two years ago. new york senator chuck schumer applauded the decision. >> first step is to have everyone who got any kind of cancer, mess owe theel owe ma or any other disease to be covered. after all these are heros like our veterans. >> nbc chief science and health correspondent robert bazell joins me now. bob, we remember back when the epa was saying no worries, nothing is wrong with the air there and we all know what has happened since. finally these people are being compensated although there's still big health issues for those still ill. >> a lot of health issues, andrea. the idea that air and those of us who breathed it, the idea that air was somehow not unhealthful, was just a fantasy. it was terrible. it had every kind of pollution you could imagine in it, including just plain all kinds of metallic dust as well as toxins and the idea that it won't lead to cancer is just absurd. now it takes many years to prove that it will cause cancer because as we know from studies of smokin
the law after new york city detective james adro ga who died after working at ground zero was signed two years ago. new york senator chuck schumer applauded the decision. >> first step is to have everyone who got any kind of cancer, mess owe theel owe ma or any other disease to be covered. after all these are heros like our veterans. >> nbc chief science and health correspondent robert bazell joins me now. bob, we remember back when the epa was saying no worries, nothing is wrong...
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the taliban obviously claiming responsibility for all of these attacks and then today, we saw the first violent protest, protesting against this anti-islamic movie that has caused outrage throughout the muslim world. the last few days they've ended peacefully but today just outside of the city limits, hundreds of protesters demanded that death to america, they were chanting that, they were hurling rocks. they set police cars ablaze. they wanted to make it to the u.s. embassy but the police did stop them and the afghan police we should mention, at least 45 afghan police officers sustained minor injuries, stopping these afghans from making it into the city limits and trying to make their way to the u.s. embassy here. andrea? >> what about the suicide bomber against the children who were part of a skateboarding group? chis tragedy last week? >> that is an absolute tragedy. it's little children we see all the time standing outside of i sap headquarters. the u.s. military sees them outside near the bases, they sell head scarves, sold little trinkets and this teenage suicider made their way i
the taliban obviously claiming responsibility for all of these attacks and then today, we saw the first violent protest, protesting against this anti-islamic movie that has caused outrage throughout the muslim world. the last few days they've ended peacefully but today just outside of the city limits, hundreds of protesters demanded that death to america, they were chanting that, they were hurling rocks. they set police cars ablaze. they wanted to make it to the u.s. embassy but the police did...